Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-10-09
GARRETT DENIES
The SALE OPTRE B. 4 0. TELEGRAPH
His Interests in the Property Ignored by the
Syndicate.
TROUBLE FOR THE WESTERN UNION.
Stock Takes Drop on Strength Of CARROTS
Talk.

NEW YORK, October S.-Mr. Lauter-
bach, counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio
syndicate, was interviewed this morning
with regard to the statement published in
a morning paper that Mr.. Garrett would
veto the sale of the B. & o. Telegraph lines
to the Western Union, and would not al
low it to be consummated.
Mr.. Lauterbauch said: "Denials, eyas.
ions and threats to the contrary, the deal
has been made. 1t will stand, you may
count upon that. Possession of the B. & o.
lines has been given 10 the Western Union
Company, and it is rather late in the day
to set aside an action taken with the full
permission and acquieacence OF MIR. Gar
rett."
Officers of the Baltimore and Ohio Tele-
graph Company were also seen by the re-
porter. They say that there is no truth
in the story of the disruption of the deal.
This mornings Times contains the fol-
lowing: It's no trade, gentlemen" said
Mr.. Robert Garrett to Edward Stokes and
small party of friends at tine Hoffman
House, early last evening. He referred to
the sale Of the B. & o. Telegraph Com
pany to Jay Could.
The annourcement-most emphatically
made-was a genuine surprise to Mr.
Stokes aud his friends. They supposed
the sale had been ratified, and that all
papers relating 10 it had been signed, seal
ed and delivered. They limited as much,
asking Mr. Garrett if he bad read the
papers. Mr.: Garrett replied that he had,
but repeated in spite Of everything said
and done, the b. q .. Telegraph Com
pany had not been absorbed by its hungry
rival. Mr. Garrett looked and spoke as
if he were very much in earnest
There Is no eXaggeratiOn III the state
ment that it put Mr.. Garrett in humor to
discover that Tie syndicate apparently con
sidered his presence entirely unnecessary
Mr.. Garrett thought SO much haste un-
seemly, and iu discussing the sale last
evening said 40. The syndicate might
have waited, he thought, until he was
upon the ground before 1t disposed of the
property in the preservation OF which he
was particularly interested. 1t looked
odd, he said, that an attempt should be
made to sell the property while he vas on
the ocean and not in position to interfere
With The plans in which he was at least
entitled to Q voice.
Before Mr. Garrett left the Hoffman House
Lc had impressed his hearers with the idea
that Gould might experince a good deal OF
trouble before he could legally claim the
3. 90. Telegraph Company as his own.
OF one thing they were satlsficd-lha:
Gould would not be allowed to keep his
new purchase at the price he is said to have
paid, for Mr.. Garrett in addition 10 an
nounCing that no trade had been made,
said that Gould would under 10 circum-
stances get the Il. & 0. Telegraph Com
pany for So coo, 900; he would have to pay
a good deal bigger figure, for he was the
last m9n in the country to whom Garrett
would be willing to sell.
Robert Garrett did not say all this until
he had n long talk with John X. COwan
and other counsel. He spent several hours
at the BrevOort in consultation with his
LAWYERS, and the matters under discussion
were considered so important that two
o'clock arrived before Mr.. Garrett be-
thought him of a promise he had made to
lunch with some friends at the Manhat-
tan Club. Lunch having been disposed
of Mr. Garrett walked up to the Hoffman
House, and there made opponents Of
Western Union and friends o! competitors
telegraphs happy Dy declaring that he
meant fight and felt sure of winning He
was inclined TO this way of thinking
through the know ledge that the BIlti-
more and Ohio Telegraph Company WAS
indebted 10 him personally in the not al
together trivial sum Of between $1,000, coo
and 81, 0O0 COG.
When MIR. Garrett returned to the Bre.
WORT House last night be was not in q
laxative mood so far as business was con-
cerned lie had nothing to say, mot now,
at least perhaps in a day or two"
CARROTS statement, it's no trade"
caused considerable talk to day, hit no
excitement. Western Union went Off u
point, hat that was not attributed to Mr..
CARROTS alleged denial of the sale. Mr.,
George Gould treated the story laughingly.
lie did not believe that Mr.. Garrett was
correctly quoted. Although the collat-
eral has not been turned over, the agree
mont has been signed and is IN our posses
sion. There is LO Eiltiu.Ore and Ohio
Telegraph now, aS their wires are n part OF
our system"
MIR Could also denied the statement in
the same article that the Baltimore and
OHIO owed Mr.. Garrett personally between
s., GOO, 600 and $1,000, 900.
Mr.. W. 4. S)merSille, of the Western
Union, was authority TO say that DR.. Nor
vim Green did not believe the story, and
that DIR. Green WAS 50 confident that there
would he no trouble about the sale that he
had decided IA issue no statement about
the matter contrary to his original inten-
ton.